A Miner's Story

By Reid Youngberg

"A Miner's Story" is a historical fiction novel based on actual events occurring over a six month period from May to November at the Steep Rock Iron Mine near the North West Ontario community of Atikokan, Ontario. The story takes you through an abortive attempt by the company to undermine the Errington open pit from underground, using the 'block caving' method. The pit could go no deeper, so the plan was to recover the ore body from the underground.The main character, Wilf Baker, is a good miner but also a drunk. He heard Steep Rock was hiring miners. He arrives in town fresh off a drunk, and flat broke, hoping to find work. To his horror, he finds the company doesn't provide a camp with bunkhouse accommodation. With no money, he has find accommodation not to mention a job. He has the good fortune to run into an old mining buddy, Stan Rooster, who stakes for a room and gets him lined for work on condition he doesn't drink.Wilf keeps his end of the deal and stays sober. He ends up partners with Stan at the mine and goes onto meet a good woman to make a life for him. However the 'block caving' method of mining began to cave more than the mine had planned.....The events describe in my story are based on actual events of 1957 at Steep Rock Iron Mines. The characters are fictitious but are created from miners who worked there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1726635996
• ISBN13: 9781726635998
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"